More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Karatsu Shrine is the main shrine of the castle town of Karatsu on the coast of Saga in northern Kyushu. It was moved to its current site ...

  Maruyama is the name of a small hill in the town of Awa Ikeda in what is now Miyoshi cIty, Tokushima, on Shikoku. Maruyama is a very commo...

  Ushiki is a small farming village on the bank of the Koishiwara River that runs from the mountains to the NE down to the Chikugo River. On...

  A long, straight road leads to the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine near Kurume, and is known as the "path of light" as in mid-March and m...